Letters from Egypt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters from Egypt, credited to Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Letters from Egypt by Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon. Read by Sibella Denton. As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her health. This collection of her personal letters to her mother and her husband. By all accounts everyone loved her, and the letters are very personal in style and content. The letters are as much an introduction to her person as a record of her life on the Upper Nile. (Summary by Sibella Denton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters from Egypt
• Author credits: Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 124
• Listed recording duration: 13:00:55

Catalogue topics

• travel
• correspondence
• letters
• egypt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 124

1. 001 - Introduction — 11:08
2. 002 - Memoir — 32:32
3. 003 - November 11, 1862: Mrs. Austin — 13:48
4. 004 - November 21, 1862: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 3:50
5. 005 - November 30, 1862: Mrs. Austin — 17:24
6. 006 - December 20, 1862: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 4:36
7. 007 - February 11, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 9:44
8. 008 - March 7, 1863: Mrs. Austin — 11:26
9. 009 - March 10, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 6:03
10. 010 - April 9, 1863: Mrs. Austin — 3:18
11. 011 - April 13, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 6:52
12. 012 - April 18, 1863: Mr. Tom Taylor — 6:56
13. 013 - May 12, 1863: Mrs. Austin — 3:41
14. 014 - May 12, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 1:55
15. 015 - May 21, 1863: Mrs. Austin — 14:13
16. 016 - May 25, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 4:22
17. 017 - October 19, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 4:59
18. 018 - October 26, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 2:10
19. 019 - October 31, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 2:32
20. 020 - November 14, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 7:49
21. 021 - November 21, 1863: Mrs. Austin — 7:25
22. 022 - December 1, 1863: Mrs. Ross — 2:43
23. 023 - December 2, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 2:13
24. 024 - December 17, 1863: Sir Alexander Duff Gordon — 8:30

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